Absolutely fantastic - perfect music, great film. But yeah, I'm with Rosemary. That accent is absolutely painful. I can't tell if it's someone who doesn't actually know French but is winging it, or if it's a Canadian. Absolutely nails on a chalkboard.

I love the artful glance over the shoulder... so filled with pathos, so spontaneous. Clearly, he's a method cat. Unlike my tiger striped fool, who is currently licking tape, after hours of chattering at the leaves waving in the wind.

Rosemary - I wish you had done it.. even tho I don't know how your French is. Anything would be better. D. Humfrey - nothing like a Canadian accent. This is just a miserable distortion.. sounds perhaps like an Italian or Spaniard speaking.

To those complaining about the accent, I can only say what Dr Science says in similar circumstances: "Your ignorance is appalling." The hard and soft palates of humans and cats (which affect articulation) are very different. Therefore a French cat speaking French would be speaking it with a Cat accent. A cat like Henri who is a native French speaker and is speaking (or in this case soliloquizing) in English will be doing so with a French-Cat accent, which sounds exactly like what you hear when you play the video (convincing me of its authenticity).

I've seen a lot of on line videos in the last 25 years, this has taken over the #1 spot....each of Henri' observations is unexpected and perfectly suited my sense of humor -- while I often smile at video's, I was laughing so hard at this, that I had to watch it at least three times to extract every morsel. What a joy this was at the end of a very cranky day. Comments below are worth reading as well....extending my 'moment of zen'. I totally agree with Cleototh on the accent.

I just can't care about the accent. For the "real" French speakers it might make it even more funny. The film is brilliant and Henri looks almost just like my most precios cat, Persiztance who persited against all odds.. "I am free to go, but yet I remain.". Persistance remained and so did Henri Exestential angst. A perfaect little film. Thank you Cassie Murdock.

...and look at the poster behind the budgies cage, it's in English: "Ancient Rome"... and @ 1.31on the far left: 'French VERBS"..... and the light switches in the bathroom are North American style ones.....1.46.... and the toothpaste is "CREST"!

The "Susan Boyle" of Cat or Philosophical posts going around. By far, the best (most imaginative, witty, subtle, funny, engaging) e-show to date. Any imperfection with the accent is by far surpassed by 'l'ensemble."

Francophones who comment like this -- Terrible accent, like nails on a blackboard! -- are just the one who discourage foreigners from learning French. No wonder the number of French speakers is on the decline.

I believe the accent may be French Canadian.It certainly isn't French as taught in school, but that doesn't make it bad or wrong. I have known people in France who speak similarly.I was asked by a colleague who came from the Pyrenees to help him negotiate with a farmer near Melun. I was amazed , they didn't understand one another at all!

A plausible guess, but no: the French Canadian accent is quite different -- nor would they make such egregious errors in pronunciation. This is clearly an American who had the text translated for him, then 'had a go' at reading it himself, based on what he'd learned at high school. Tant pis, as the French say ("More's the pity").